stab

noun · verb · adjectiveA1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

stabs

1.
An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
2.
A wound made by stabbing.
3.
Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
4.
(informal)An attempt.
I'll give this thankless task a stab.
5.
Criticism.
6.
(music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
a horn stab
7.
A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
8.
(slang)(aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
9.
(abbreviation, alt of, clipping, no plural)(industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

stabs

V_ing/Gerund

stabbing

V_ed/pp

stabbed

1.
(transitive)To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
If you stab him in the heart he won't live long enough to retaliate.
Đồng nghĩa: foin, jab, shiv
2.
(transitive)To thrust in a stabbing motion.
to stab a dagger into a person
3.
(intransitive)To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes.
4.
(intransitive)To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain.
5.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
to stab a person's reputation
Đồng nghĩa: besmirch, denigrate, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray, blacken, blame, blaze, blemish, blot, blur, calumniate, calumny, chat shit, chat shite, cloud, defame, demonize, denigrate, deprave, depreciate, detract, dirty, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disrepute, diss, drag through the mud, forgab, forspeak, foul, infamize, lampoon, libel, malign, monsterize, muddy, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, smear, smirch, spatter, spot, speak ill of, stab, stain, sully, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, tarnish, torch, traduce, trash-talk, unflatter, vilify, vilipend, villainize, wrong
6.
(transitive)To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
7.
(transitive)To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
8.
(transitive)(transitive, oil industry) To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.

Tính từ

adjective

1.
(abbreviation, alt of, clipping, not comparable)(industrial relations) Clipping of established.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

foin jab shiv besmirch denigrate assassinate aspersebackbitebadmouthbefoulbelibelbesmearbewrayblackenblame blaze blemish blot blur calumniate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

antistabdownstabstablikestabproofstabstitchstabveststabwortstabworthystabwoundhave a stabstab bindingstab cellstab passstab stitchstab-raghave a stab at,take a stab atstab in the backstab in the darkstab veststab wound

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Nguồn gốc từ

First attested in Scottish English (compare stob, stobbe, stabb (a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon)), from Middle English stabbe (a stab), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with stybb. Cognate with stobbe.